"Tweedledum, the rattle-waver, and Tweedledee, the saber-rattler, were originally created to represent the 18th-century composers George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini. Lewis Carroll borrowed the satiric characters for 'Through the Looking Glass,' and I, in turn, am using them to symbolize the humorous folly of refusing to give ground on any point, no matter how petty." - James Christensen